It's cold enough to make a polar bear freeze

F1nut
F1nut Posts: 50,761
edited January 2014 in The Clubhouse
Zero degrees outside tonight. This is the first time the fire breathing dragon has not been able to maintain 70 in the house. UGH!
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  • BlueMDPicker
    BlueMDPicker Posts: 7,569
    edited January 2014
    Wow! Stay safe, Jesse.
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,761
    edited January 2014
    Hey Mike, I'm good, just surprised that the temp in here dropped below 70. Been meaning to call you, will do so tomorrow....err later today. I'm crawling back into my heated coffin. :cheesygrin:
    Political Correctness'.........defined

    "A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."

    President of Club Polk

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  • Phasewolf
    Phasewolf Posts: 514
    edited January 2014
    It's -13 as of now and I am keeping the temp at 68*

    If I need warmer I will just get a few class A amps that will bring the temp right up...
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  • Jhayman
    Jhayman Posts: 1,548
    edited January 2014
    It's -21 here right now with a windchill of -32 man here in Toronto were getting hammered lately with very cold an icey temps this winter..
    I remember last winter we hardly had any snow.
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  • BlueMDPicker
    BlueMDPicker Posts: 7,569
    edited January 2014
    F1nut wrote: »
    Hey Mike, I'm good, just surprised that the temp in here dropped below 70. Been meaning to call you, will do so tomorrow....err later today. I'm crawling back into my heated coffin. :cheesygrin:

    It's 40 here this morning and I thought THAT was pretty damned cold. :eek: Talk to you soon.
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  • gudnoyez
    gudnoyez Posts: 8,132
    edited January 2014
    -9 here with -25 windchill a warm coffin sounds good right now. I get to go out in it, it's weird the kind of noises the truck makes when driving in this Polar Vortex. Stay warm and safe everyone me I'm venturing out in this cold, got bills to pay and a audio addiction to support.
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  • heiney9
    heiney9 Posts: 25,217
    edited January 2014
    Yesterday morning it was -21 with windchill between -35/-40. Our high yesterday was -10

    Today I wake up to -15 with windchill between -25/-30 and we might see a high today of -1

    Furnace has been running overtime for two days now. I have an older house and despite my energy saving efforts I can feel the drafts :cheesygrin:

    Normal temps here in Northern IL for this time of year 29/15.

    Damn polar vortex which many suspect was partially created by global warming.

    Stay warm everybody

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  • D'prived
    D'prived Posts: 191
    edited January 2014
    6 degrees with a wind chill of -2 here in northern Alabama. Coldest weather we've had in 18 years.
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  • deronb1
    deronb1 Posts: 5,021
    edited January 2014
    -7 with -35 windchill. Furnace and oil filled radiators going at full tilt. Took the wife to work and will get her at 3. Then its snuggle time!
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 33,014
    edited January 2014
    Eh...so it's cold. Not like it's never been this cold before. Maybe some of you youngsters were just too young to remember ? Anyway, that Polar Vortex....just those crazy Canadians sending it our way because their pissed over our Hockey teams. Which are made up of all Canadians anyway...so whats the big deal ?

    All the people on welfare are gathering in Florida right now. They plan on blowing a collective **** from government cheese to blow that Vortex back into Canada where it belongs. Now that my friends is what I call real climate change. LOL

    btw- anyone north of Orlando....DUCK !!
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  • hochpt21
    hochpt21 Posts: 5,423
    edited January 2014
    Driving into work yesterday. Today was close to the same. This is without windchill which took it down another 20 or so.

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  • drumminman
    drumminman Posts: 3,396
    edited January 2014
    It's a balmy 9 degrees here in the piedmont of NC. Left the dogs inside today (all short hairs). They seemed to like it !
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  • Hermitism
    Hermitism Posts: 4,277
    edited January 2014
    Women, please bring your husbands and/or boyfriends in from the doghouse tonight. It is too cold to leave them out.

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  • codyc1ark
    codyc1ark Posts: 2,532
    edited January 2014
    drumminman wrote: »
    It's a balmy 9 degrees here in the piedmont of NC. Left the dogs inside today (all short hairs). They seemed to like it !

    I hear ya'! I woke up to 3 here in the foothills - let the dogs out and the lab was as quick as she ever is to do her business and back to the door, our husky mix went for an all out sprint and laps around the back yard. He is LOVING the cold, spent most of last night out on the deck sleeping, meanwhile the lab was curled up on the futon!

    I did see on Facebook that my hometown in Iowa was rescheduling garbage pickup due to the cold, I can remember MANY cold days hanging on to the back of the garbage truck fearing for my life in sub zero temps!
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  • astar13656
    astar13656 Posts: 164
    edited January 2014
    -9 most of last night here. I worked 12 hours on an unheated dock loading trucks, didn't see much of the supervisors, they stayed in the office alot. lol.
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  • deronb1
    deronb1 Posts: 5,021
    edited January 2014
    astar13656 wrote: »
    -9 most of last night here. I worked 12 hours on an unheated dock loading trucks, didn't see much of the supervisors, they stayed in the office alot. lol.

    Not surprised. How are you liking the 2Bs?
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  • dromunds
    dromunds Posts: 10,029
    edited January 2014
    Yesterday, it was close to -50 wind chill when I got up and driving the 50 minutes to work, my car's temp gauge never got off the lowest mark, and when I got off the freeway it went all the way down to the bottom of the gauge and never came back up. And I had put a piece of cardboard in front of the radiator. I seriously thought I would have a frozen block or something. Underground parking at work, thankfully, but then on the way home it never went above the lowest mark again. Last night was just wickedly cold with a very strong wind. This morning it was -22 but a little less wind. High of -6 today regular temperature Tonight it is again forecasted to be -20 regular temperature. Animals are really taking it hard, first a lot of snow and now wicked wicked cold temperatures. Pretty much all of December and now the first part of January. And we've got several months left of winter. I can't believe any deer or turkeys, etc. can survive this stuff.
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  • Speedskater
    Speedskater Posts: 495
    edited January 2014
    Sunday evening at 9PM it was raining and 39F. Then the weather hit! By midnight it was 32F and the wind was building with gusts in the 35 to 40 MPH range (that very high wind continued for 60 hours and now it's dropped to 30MPH). Monday afternoon the sun came out but the temperature continued to drop, going below zero at 2PM it continued to drop to -11F at midnight.
    Now 0F in sunshine and no wind is cold but add 40MPH wind gusts and it gets just plain ridiculous!
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  • recoveryone
    recoveryone Posts: 901
    edited January 2014
    10 Day Forecast Life in so Cal
    Updated: Jan 7, 2014, 10:06am PST
    Today
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    73°
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    81°
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    81°
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  • Tornado Red
    Tornado Red Posts: 939
    edited January 2014
    Curse you California! We'll have the last laugh when California breaks off and falls into the Pacific :o) -51 here yesterday with the wind chill....I've decided anything past -35 and I can't tell the difference, too cold.
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  • WastelandWand'r
    WastelandWand'r Posts: 466
    edited January 2014
    27 here with calm winds.
    I am so loving this winter so far. Way above normal for us, which I know is no consolation for you folks in the banana belt.
    Be safe and keep an eye on the pets outside.
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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,251
    edited January 2014
    Don't worry guys. The yearly average temperature is increasing every year, so you will have a nice hot spell this summer to even things out. :smile:
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  • inspiredsports
    inspiredsports Posts: 5,501
    edited January 2014
    Totally weird weather. We had +40 degrees early Monday morning, zero at noon Monday, and bottomed out at -12 with 23 mph winds that put us somewhere around -35. It was back to 0 at noon today, and now a balmy +3 with only a -17 wind chill. We are looking at +40 again on Friday. I guess it's a little better here than on Mount Everest! :-)
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  • mrbiron
    mrbiron Posts: 5,711
    edited January 2014
    Please take the time to think about your local **** with weather like this. She sits on her corner, in fishnet stalkings only to take a couple $5 shots to the mouth. Do you hear any of them complaining about the weather?!?!

    You guys are all wimps. :)
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  • pearsall001
    pearsall001 Posts: 5,093
    edited January 2014
    Dang, with weather like this I think I'll put my cables outside to receive a "FREE" Cryo treatment.
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  • mantis
    mantis Posts: 17,201
    edited January 2014
    I hate when it's this cold. it's 10 right now, it was 6 this morning. Crazy cold.
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited January 2014
    Sissy's, nothing but chickens in here. I'm in a thong and letting it all out there.
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited January 2014
    pearsall001 wrote: »
    Dang, with weather like this I think I'll put my cables outside to receive a "FREE" Cryo treatment.

    And JUST as valid.
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  • Mikey081057
    Mikey081057 Posts: 7,127
    edited January 2014
    A balmy +9 F here in central NJ. F is right. Colder than a witches t*t
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    edited January 2014
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